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The Year in Review
Highlights


Sermon: Make Assets
of Your Liabilities


Sermon: Your Breakout Comes Before Your Breakthrough.

Cathedral Choir


Unity Choir


The Brookinaires
Gospel Choir


Download a PDF version of this years Annual Report.

FAME is converting the 2010 Annual Report to a 6-page print format, reducing the amount of paper consumption for the annual edition. This will result in a substantive decline in paper consumption and the associated environmental impact.

LET’S ALL MAKE A “GREEN” EFFORT TO REDUCE, RECYCLE AND REUSE.

  
 



       
 


Pastor John J. Hunter, First Lady Denise Hunter, and First Daughter, Jaden Hunter

  

“Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. (Proverbs 16:3)”

As I complete my sixth year as Pastor of First AME Church of Los Angeles I thank my beautiful wife and partner in ministry and service, Denise, for her love, leadership and support.  I am grateful for the guiding hand of our Bishop, the Right Reverend T. Larry Kirkland, Sr. and for the constant prayers of our Presiding Elder, Reverend Dr. Norman D. Copeland.

When Denise and I reflect over this last year and witness the commitment of the FAME congregation to help our brothers and sisters in crisis, we are overwhelmed with gratitude and humbled by their compassion.  Whether it is praying for the victims of Hurricane Katrina five years after the flooding, being one of the first Churches in Los Angeles to respond with generous donations to the earthquake tragedy in Haiti, or celebrating our strength in charity through the spirit of Nelson Mandela Day, I am proud to be the Pastor of FAME and pleased with the hard work we are accomplishing together as a unified force of good in a challenging world.
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This has been a great year for FAME Corporations!  I am filled with gratitude and appreciation to God, our staff, and my family for their love and support as we conclude another year.  I am particularly grateful to my husband, Pastor John for always believing in me and standing in the gap as we work together to build an amazing ministry.

I am so proud of the work FAME is doing to improve the lives of our brothers and sisters in the community.  We are helping everyone step-up to the challenge of praising God in mind and body by providing affordable fresh fruits and vegetables every weekend at the FAME So Fresh Produce Market.  We are offering free cooking classes with a professional chef and nutritionist to encourage learning more about healthy cooking.  We are also leading the way in increasing physical activity in our lives with two important campaigns: Let’s Move L.A. and Let’s Move 5th District. 
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  Stewards      

FAMES’ Pastoral Staff

Rev. J. L. Armstrong
Rev. Rosalyn Brookins
Rev. Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis
Rev. Cassandra Clark
Rev. Roosevelt Dorn
Rev. Dr. Carolyn Herron
Rev. Walter Love
Rev. Rosie Medina
Rev. Lucius Okoh
Rev. Floyd Patterson
Rev. Sylvia Smith
Rev. Eduardo Vickers
Rev. Dr. Ralph C. Watkins
Rev. Dr. Helen Easterling Williams

Leadership
Bishop T. Larry Kirkland, Sr.
~ Presiding Prelate

Mrs. Mary L. Kirkland
~ Episcopal Supervisor

Rev. Dr. Norman D. Copeland
~ Presiding Elder

Rev. Dr. John J. Hunter
~ Senior Minister

Mrs. Denise Hunter
~ First Lady

 

    
 

Board #1
Judge Irma Brown Dillon | Chair Pro Tem
Jackie Brown
Clarence Daniels
Joyce Dorn
Arthur Gainer
Lawrence Gower
Howard Green
Chuck Hawkins
Gloria Lightner
Kerman Maddox
Anitha Mitchell Logan
Erol Mowatt
Delores Orduna
Dessie Roberts
Jacquelyn Snead
Clark Vanish

Emeritus Stewards
William Curtis
Hasten Folk
Grace Goward

  

Board #2
Annie Battle-Bolden | Chair Pro Tem
Cheri Arnold
Brenda Elliott-White
Michael Ellison-Lewis
Bernice Gaines
Shelley Hughes
Vincent Jackson
Ronald Johnson
Shujuan Littlejohn
Anita Maxey
Lloyd Nelson
Rosalind Perry
Ava Thomas
Michael Warren
Jack Williams

 

        
Trustees  

Board #1
Melville Perry | Chair Pro Tem
David Butler
Joseph Duncan
Dorothy Goodrich
Ellis Gordon
Karl Grant
Robert King
Beth Ross
Archie Shackles
Dorothy Tarkington-Mallery
Elmon Von Leggett
Jacqueline White-Brown

Emeritus Trustees
Pearl Keller
Janet Timmons
John Whitney

  

Board #2
Constance Fortune | Chair Pro Tem
Gloria Blanton
Herbert Brookins
Karen Caffee
Andre Crenshaw
Alma Davis
Sharon Flowers
Jeanette Harris
Vivian Hines
Keith Johnson
Donald K. Wilson
Major Woodard

  
     
 
In Memoriam: Reverend Earl Green, Swep Bell, Joseph January
   

 

      

 
   

Sunday Worship:
8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 Noon

Sunday School:
10:00 a.m.

Tuesday: Pastor’s Bible Study:
7:00 p.m. Church Plaza Level

Wednesday: Prayer and Worship:
12:00 Noon

Thursday: Young Adult Ministry:
7:00 p.m. Church Plaza Level


First African Methodist
Episcopal Church of Los Angeles
2270 South Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90018

Church Main Office: (323) 730-7750
FAME Renaissance: (323) 730-7700
FAME Housing: (323) 730-7760

 

        
      First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles is the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City of Angels. In 1872 Mrs. Biddy Mason received the vision from God to establish a church that would minister to the mind, body and soul of all who would join that small band of believers. That vision and small band of believers has grown to what is now a congregation of more than 19,000 members and several dozen ministries within 13 corporations that bless and reach tens of thousands of seekers in greater metropolitan Los Angeles. Built on the foundation laid by Bishop Richard Allen who in the City of Philadelphia in 1787 started the movement vthat later became the African Methodist Episcopal Church, FAME Church finds joy in being the “First To Serve.”        

 

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